Apple Patent Depicts Advances in Handling Incoming Calls

[digiex]

either putting them on hold or saving voice mails as an SMS.

Correction MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)

They could not possibly patent that, since (SMS, MMS is already patented technology and the patent holder is not Apple.

 

[Guest]

Anyone else get a feeling of Google Voice deja vu?
Some day, I'll get around to patenting the idea of naming a company or product after some real-world object or concept, like Macintosh, Eclipse, Jaguar, etc.

 

[davewolfgang]

WTF??? Voicemail systems could do this back in the 90's. Who "approved" this at the patent office????

 

[rebel1280]

how about adding a call block feature without having to JB it?!

 

[Guest]

This is utterly RIDICULOUS.

The government needs to investigate the Trade and Patent Office. Apple must be paying the top guys off to be awarded these patents. WTF?

 

[dauntekong]

Googled this up and it came up as Google Voice.... EPIC FAILED for Apple

 

[Usersname]

Oh, it's THW! No wonder 95% of the readers don't understand this patent application.

 

[davewolfgang]

[quotemsg=9438338,32,374423]Oh, it's THW! No wonder 95% of the readers don't understand this patent application.[/quotemsg]

We do understand it - that's the problem with it. This patent should've been denied - it's tech that has already been in existence for a long time. I was setting this up for incoming calls back in the 90's.

 

[Guest]

This comments section is quite funny. Anyone that disagrees with the status quo is hidden and given numerous negative votes regardless if their comment is completely correct. As a holder of numerous patents, it is one of the only ways I can make money off my ideas. If I didn't have their protection any time I came up with something non-creative losers (like the vast majority of posters on here, apparently) would just come along and take it. If that were to happen, what would be my incentive to create anything if people are just going to take it? My guess is that this is the same group of people who complain about a $.99 app not being the next Microsoft Office. A completely clueless group of individuals who have absolutely no idea of the time and resources required to actually develop something.

 

[ms767210]

Bunch of dickheads at the US patent office need to get out more. Theres nothing new in this idea.

 

[davewolfgang]

This comments section is quite funny. Blah, Blah Blah.

What in the world are you talking about? Patents should be for NEW ideas - not something that's been around for well OVER a decade. The old Lucent Definity phone switches and Audix Voicemail systems did this back in the 90's.

Now if they want to copyright the programing code that does this - more power to them - but they didn't, they patented the RESULTS, which isn't suppose to be allowed. It's like when they got approved for patenting round corners or a "white" cell phone.

NEVER, EVER should've been granted.

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]Colinmb[/nom]This comments section is quite funny. Anyone that disagrees with the status quo is hidden and given numerous negative votes regardless if their comment is completely correct. As a holder of numerous patents, it is one of the only ways I can make money off my ideas. If I didn't have their protection any time I came up with something non-creative losers (like the vast majority of posters on here, apparently) would just come along and take it. If that were to happen, what would be my incentive to create anything if people are just going to take it? My guess is that this is the same group of people who complain about a $.99 app not being the next Microsoft Office. A completely clueless group of individuals who have absolutely no idea of the time and resources required to actually develop something.[/citation]
I think you missed the point, being that this is NOT an original idea. You can get as many patents as you wish for your own ideas, to better protect them, but you should not get a patent for something that has already been in use if no one among the original thinkers got a patent for it. That is similar to stealing an existing idea, maybe changing something about it, then claiming the whole thing as your own.

 

[Guest]

I came here to see what they came up with. I facepalm myself. I should know better. Bad sf234sff, bad.